Crowdspring helps agencies do more, in less time, with fewer capital expenses. Hundreds of the world's best small, midsize and large agencies leverage crowdspring to innovate their businesses and increase choice for their clients.
With every project you'll get:
Dozens of designs in 7 days or less
100% money back guarantee
Award winning customer support
Free legal contract protecting your intellectual property
Agencies leverage crowdspring to extend their creative teams and deliver unprecedented choice for their clients and prospects. Over 220,000 talented designers from 195 countries work on crowdspring.
Work you'll love, guaranteed.
Beautiful, professional design that drives results for agencies and their clients (the guarantee extends to your clients). No hidden costs and no surprises. If you're not 100% happy with your design project, we'll promptly refund all your money.
Powerful tools for agencies.
Team collaboration, private galleries and projects, non-disclosure and customized project contracts, unlimited public and/or private focus groups, and white-label presentation sites to help you deliver great results for your clients.
Protection of intellectual property.
Powerful intellectual property protections, made simple. Every project includes industry leading customized, dynamic legal contracts and industry-leading policies and practices that protect the intellectual property delivered in the project.
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You have the vision, we have the creative.
Growing your agency’s creative business has never been easier. Our creatives, from Australia to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, are standing by to help you. Work with one designer, three designers, or have dozens of designers compete at the same time - it’s up to you. Give your clients and prospects choice that they won't be able to find anywhere else.
For small agencies, everything you need to up your game.
Crowdspring lets smaller agencies level-up against bigger competitors by leveraging a team of over 220,000 talented creatives from around the world. Eliminate the cost and complexity of hiring designers and paying for computers and software. Use crowdspring to generate dozens of design ideas and styles which you can then iterate. This allows you to compete with the deep bench of creative talent at large agencies.
For bigger agencies, the opportunity to innovate your business model.
Agencies are at an inflection point. Clients are cutting costs and demanding more innovation and creativity. Competition is becoming fiercer but resources are becoming more scarce. Crowdspring lets you change the rules. Peel the layers and focus on the things you’re uniquely able to do better than anyone else. Crowdsource the creative to crowdspring.
Pro tools designed for agencies.
Each agency is unique. Our platform allows you to customize projects, assign unique permissions to collaborators, have public or private design galleries, implement search exclusion, customized intellectual property legal agreements, require non-disclosure agreements, launch public or private focus groups, and launch white-label presentation sites where you can share designs with your clients, under your own brand. Everything under one roof, organized, centralized, powerful, and easy to use. Pay as you go. No set up costs, no minimums, and no surprises.
use as a springboard, ideation or even to add to existing work.
For a relatively low cost I can have resources at my disposal that I may never have found were it not for crowdspring. As an agency we could use this as a springboard, ideation or even to add to existing work, The possibilities themselves are just beginning with this global market and talent that are there and is ready.
Chris Miller
SVP, Group Managing Director, DraftFCB
how crowdspring works...
1.Tell us what you need.
Interactive Q&A customized for every project type.
Flexible pricing for everyone.
Simple (takes just a few minutes) and proven process.
FAQs
Projects run for 7 days, but you can shorten them to as little as 1 day if you're in a hurry and get more time if you need to iterate longer. Many entries come in the last few days of a project, and we encourage you to wait until the project ends before picking your favorite (tell us if you want to close the project early). You can extend your project for free, up to 7 more days if you need more time.
Logo design packages start at $299, while projects with a single designer (1-to-1 projects) start at $200. Other services are priced differently - take a look below at the specific type of project you plan to post. All packages include the award to the designer and crowdspring's fee, a custom legal contract giving you (or your client) full rights to the work you're buying, free focus groups, our award-winning customer support, tools and platform. You can select packages and features based on what you need and your budget. You will always know up front exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.
Absolutely! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a custom legal contract giving you (or your client) full rights to the work you're buying. If you have multiple awards, you'll have separate contracts for each. Once the contract is signed and the creative is paid after you approve the final deliverables in your project, you (or your client) can use the design (or name) any way you like. You can change it or alter it in any way – it's yours.
The non-winning work remains the property of the person who created that work. This means you may not use those other entries (or any portions of them) in any way. But we give you an easy way to add awards and make offers in your projects when you find more than one design (or name) you love.
"I loved working with crowdspring! It was so exciting to watch your project pick up steam as you gave feedback to the creatives. It felt very collaborative and you have so many creative people submitting ideas just for your project. Their system is organized, easy to use and understand. I am so happy with the results!"
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
2.Work with our über-talented designers
Multiple designers submit dozens of concepts.
Review, rate, and give feedback.
One price. Pick the design you love.
FAQs
You'll see dozens of designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in the project, the more designs you will get. We'll let you know every time a new design or comment comes in and invite you to give feedback. The more feedback you provide, the more designs you'll receive. Years of experience show us that projects with active clients will receive more than double the designs compared to projects with low client participation.
Absolutely! In fact, this is a key factor for success. Once the designs start rolling in, let the designers know what you think about their designs. You can score and give individual feedback. You can also update your brief if you want to address all participants in your project. They are happy to make changes and iterate on their designs.
When you score each entry (1 to 5 stars), your score and comments are private. Only you and the individual designer will see the star rating and comments on their design. Updates to your brief are public for all participants in the project.
Like more than one design? It happens all the time. You can start your project with multiple awards or add awards at any time during your project. You can also make offers on additional designs after your project has been awarded.
"In 10 years I have launched 17 projects on crowdspring and have always been impressed. Crowdspring brings 10 maybe even 100 times more creativity than simply working with a single random creative I could have found outside of crowdspring where I might only see a couple different concepts. And the price is very affordable."
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
3.Pick the winning design and finalize the project.
Select the winner.
Make final adjustments.
Receive full rights to the work you purchased.
FAQs for step 3
You have seven days to select your favorite after the project closes. Sometimes, you might need an extra few days. Just let us know when that happens.
Before making the final decision, you may want to run a free focus group. All silver packages in design projects include one free focus group ($29 upgrade to unlimited). All other design packages include unlimited focus groups.
A focus group (also called a "poll") allows you to invite friends, customers, colleagues and anyone else to vote and comment on their favorite designs (you can assign weighted votes or let each vote count equally). Anyone is eligible to vote as long as they have the special voting URL we'll provide to you (they will not need to register an account). Your focus group can be public or private - you choose! You fully control whom you invite to each focus group and what designs are included in each focus group. You can also use the private label presentation feature to share the designs privately and discretely with your client.
In design projects, you'll have a private area to complete the project with the designer you chose. If you have more than one award, you'll have a separate wrap-up with each designer. Each of you will sign the legal contract for the project (giving you or your client full rights once the designer is paid).
You can continue to iterate and request changes in wrap-up to make sure the design is just right. Once you approve the proof files, the designer will create and send final files for your approval. Once you approve the final files, we pay the designer and you (or your client) own full rights to the work.
In naming projects, you'll sign the contract and confirm the name and that's it - it's yours.
For each project category, we'll recommend required file types and will ask the winning designer to provide you with appropriate final files. You can always request specific formats you or your printer require.
"I just finished my 2nd of 3 projects with crowdspring. The first was an incredible book cover. This new project was artwork for a wooded token. I have a 3rd project on going for the development of a logo for graphic for my wife's jewelry business. I'll summarize - Don't waste your time at other sites - just come to crowdspring.com. The experience, the talent and the result will only make your life easier."
Now we have access to everything we've ever asked for: infinite talent, unlimited choice, boundless collaboration - and all on a budget that we name. This changes everything.
Maintaining an in-house creative staff is expensive and laborious. With the crowd, you get access to a creative pool many times larger than anything you could tap in-house for a fraction of the cost. While strategic creatives are still necessary to make sure the crowd is effectively utilized, it’s far less expensive to hire one strategist than four designers… much less 220,000 of them.
Your clients win big here, too. If your agency works with crowdspring, your clients get a chance to consider a much wider array of creative proposals - and from designers who specialize in specific types of design. That means your client will get cutting edge deliverables and guidance from those who know the game better than anyone else. And, all at a far more comfortable price point. No more Russian roulette.
Plus, with our industry-leading intellectual property agreements, policies, and practices, you can trust crowdspring to deliver great results for you and your clients.
Since 2008, crowdspring has been the top choice for the world's large, midsize and small agencies. We've worked with the likes of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, BBH, FCB, Element79, Shift Communications, and hundreds of other agencies in the United States and around the world.
We’ve also worked with hundreds of boutique and freelance clients to help them scale their businesses sustainably.
Our flexible pricing levels offer a perfect option for agencies of any size. You will know exactly what you will pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.
While agencies can post Silver and Gold projects, most agencies choose Elite or Platinum in order to work with the best creatives and access pro tools.
Elite projects allow you to work with five of crowdspring’s best designers (those with reputations of 90 and above), each of whom is paid. Your five designers will deliver five different styles and approaches. You’ll save time scoring entries and providing feedback to fewer designers. And, you’ll walk away with intellectual property rights, and final deliverables from each of the five designers.
Platinum projects include all of the pro tools useful for agencies and are open to an unlimited number of creatives with a reputation of 80 or above. Because Platinum projects feature our highest awards, they attract our top creatives, so you'll see work from the best of the best.
Crowdspring guarantees your satisfaction. We’re not happy until you are. Simply contact us within 30 days of the end of your crowdsourced design project and we’ll return ALL of your money. Agencies are so thrilled with the designs they receive on crowdspring that we are proud to stand behind the work and make you an iron-clad promise.
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
